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Welcome to the IBM COBOL Café. Here you will find the latest technical and business information, and educational information about COBOL and related z/OS, IBM i and AIX COBOL topics, including IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS and IBM Developer for z Systems Enterprise Edition.

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Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V5.2 provides day 1 support for the new z processor. Besides the ability to generate new z13 instructions, this new compiler also has abilities to use the new Vector Facility for certain COBOL statements, and expand usage of Decimal Floating Point Facility for Packed Decimal calculations. Enterprise COBOL V5.2 provides significant performance improvements over the GA release of Enterprise COBOL V5.1. Well-structured, compute intensive batch applications running on z13 (compiled with Enterprise COBOL V5.2) have shown... [More]

We are pleased to announce the Managed Beta Program for IBM® Enterprise COBOL VNext, which will focus on new features, quality and performance. The enrollment deadline is 15 January 2013. The benefits of participating in this Beta include: Opportunity to influence the product and future product direction. Ability to test code and documentation, and ensure compatibility in their environment. Free education, code, and documentation during the Beta. Free support by development during the Beta for their questions and problems Competitive... [More]